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When:
April 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
2019-04-11T19:00:00-04:00
2019-04-11T19:15:00-04:00
Where:
B122 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
USA
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
USA
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4/11 Native Land (Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, 1942) with Workers Film and Photo League shorts
Presented by McKayla Sluga
After breaking with the Film and Photo League and converting Nykino into Frontier Films, Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand directed Native Land, released in 1942. Paul Robeson narrates and sings in this social-political film about the plight of American farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers against violent local authorities and the Ku Klux Klan. Fusing newsreel footage with fictional recreations, Native Land straddles documentary and drama to endorse leftist revolutionary ideology and labor union activism as antidotes for racism and corporate/capitalist exploitation of workers.